Now, what can you do with a couple of ordinary looking fish? Fry them for a very, very long time. Believe it or not, this recipe delivers the most moist and juicy fish you’ve ever tasted. It’s just that before you get around to eating it, it seriously looks like you’ve cooked the living daylights…
As most people do, I like to scan the news with my breakfast and catch up on the events of the day. Not so long a go, I did this with something that was called a newspaper and was, believe it or not, delivered by a man at 5.30 in the morning. However, times have…
I stumbled across a silly fact I wasn’t aware of today but probably should have been: Oscar Wilde only wrote one book: The Picture of Dorian Gray. So I went in search of similar ‘one-offs’ and, of course, ended up completely lost in lists of authors and musicians—the so-called ‘One Hit Wonders’. After Gone With…
Where have all the cowboys gone? My dear old dad would be rolling in his grave now if he knew that television and movies had abandoned them all. A good Western movie, TV program or paperback was my dad’s absolute favourite entertainment. So much so that Johnny Cash’s ‘Streets Of Laredo’ farewelled my dad at…
For those of you who may not have heard, I’ve published a new book. Now don’t go rushing off to Amazon looking for a book written by ‘The Vandal’. The book, HAL, is written by my ‘aka’, Derek Haines, who you will find on Amazon. Anyway, on with the show, or teaser or whatever you…
There are some crimes our legislators are continually ignoring, and I really believe the following misdemeanors should be added to the Criminal Code with immediate effect. Any person or persons ensconced in a supermarket check-out queue who darts off to fetch an article or two they forgot and hence creates a check-out traffic jam should…
